Daily Voting News For June 18, 2008

Daily Voting News For June 18,
2008

Last Friday election activist and founder of the Florida
Fair Elections Coalition, Susan Pynchon, announced her run
for Volusia County Supervisor of Elections. Susan joins
Ellen Brodsky, who is running for the same position in
Broward County and who is also a member of Florida Fair
Elections Coalition.

The vendor’s lobby group, The
Election Technology Council (ETC), recently published a
report in which they whine about not having the power that
they had before the EAC took more control over the voting
system testing and certification program. The ETC wants the
testing and certification process to be easier for them.
They want to be able to engage EAC commissioners and staff
in ex parte conversations. And they want a seat at the table
on the Technical Guidelines Development Committee. In all
cases the EAC has said NO! and today EAC Chair Rosemary
Rodriguez has reiterated that NO!, loudly and clearly. We
thank the Chair and the rest of the commissioners for taking
this stand for the voters. We need well tested voting
systems and not voting systems that have been certified just
because the testing would take too long....

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